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Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...Paradox: Criticism of Women and Women as Critics’, in The Cambridge History of Music Criticism, ed. Christopher Dingle, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 272-90 Leonard, M. (2007) Gender in the Music Industry: Rock, Discourse and Girl Power, Aldershot, Ashgate O’Brien, L. (2012) She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music, Third Revised Edition,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...paradox in public attitudes towards graffiti: ‘People hate the tags, but they want the murals. […] I think there is a misunderstanding, and people don’t realize that it is all connected and all related. You can’t have the mural without the tag’ (Ferrari cited in Imam, 2012)...Visions of protest: Graffiti: 6 Graffiti as a form of popular protest - The following...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...paradoxically your sense of identity also shapes that world over time. Your multiple identities give you a sense of purpose, self-efficacy, motivation and commitment. Your sense of identity will therefore impact on how you behave. Identity is linked to agency. All humans are able to exercise agency in a formation of our identities by selecting and rejecting influences and...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...Paradox, is one in which positive feedback operates, at least until basic resources are totally used up or skyrocketing costs block the positive feedback. In southeast England it is possible to speculate that the incidence of gridlock, pollution effects and social effects such as road rage, as well as increased fuel costs are beginning to block positive feedback. This...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...paradox’. Norman Friesen raises three objections to learning objects in this paper: Three objections to learning objects and e-learning standards. In this 2009 video [https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ocw/mod/resource/view.php?id=13620] Brian Lamb describes his experience with learning objects, which addresses many of the reasons why they didn’t realise the aims that...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...paradox in the claim that thinking about ancient Egyptian art and culture is one element of an extensive, and resolutely contemporary, endeavour...Week 1 The influence of Egyptian art: 2.1 Gustave Flaubert – novelist - The French novelist Gustave Flaubert famously travelled with the writer Maxime du Camp through Egypt and the Holy Land in 1849. Modern critical scholars,...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise, London, Abacus. Schoderbeck, P.P., Schoderbeck, C.G. and Kefalas, A.G. (1985) Management Systems: Conceptual Considerations, Plano, Texas, Business Publications Inc...Week 3: Identifying systems of interest: Introduction - In Week 2 you looked at how we describe and talk about complex situations in general. You also...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...paradoxically, linked with strengthening nationalism and intensifying political tensions. These two tendencies were held in precarious balance by the enormous expansion of European power throughout the globe and the rich field this offered for the great variety of its peoples’ energies, and the failure of most emerging nationalities in this period to gain control over...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs